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Summary: A critical assessment of America's foreign policy in the Middle East throughout the past four decades evaluates and connects regional engagements since 1990 while revealing their massive costs. From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving in the Greater Middle East. Since 1990, virtually no American soldiers have been killed in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956 BACBrooks, Rosa
Summary: A former top Pentagon official, daughter of anti-war activists, wife of an Army Green Beret and human rights activist presents a scholarly examination of how a constant state of war is contrary to America's founding values, undermines international rules and compromises future security. --Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 BROManchester, William
Summary: Biography of one of the most controversial American generals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1978
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MACARTHUR, DOUGLAS MANBunting, Josiah
Summary: "A portrait of one of the greatest leaders of modern history, George Catlett Marshall, and a distillation of the essential lessons his formation offers to the leaders of today and tomorrow. George Marshall was a soldier-statesman who guided the Allies to victory during World War II and set Europe on the postwar path to recovery with the plan that bears his name, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARSHALL, GEORGE C. BUNAmbinder, Marc
Summary: The incredible story of the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the former Soviet Union.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 AMBSummary: Explores a half-century of U.S. foreign policy from World War II to the Iraq War, revealing how, as Dwight Eisenhower had warned in his 1961 Farewell Address, political and corporate interests have become alarmingly entangled in the business of war. On a deeper level, what emerges is a portrait of a nation in transition--drifting dangerously far from her founding principles toward a more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHYWagner, Kim A.
Summary: "In March 1906, American soldiers on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines surrounded and killed 1000 local men, women, and children, known as Moros, on top of an extinct volcano. The so-called 'Battle of Bud Dajo' was hailed as a triumph over an implacable band of dangerous savages, a "brilliant feat of arms" according to President Theodore Roosevelt. Some contemporaries, including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.9 WAGCassidy, David C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pi Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 CASGroom, Winston
Summary: Groom has written the fascinating story of three extraordinary heroes who defined aviation during the great age of flight: Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jimmy Doolittle. These cleverly interwoven tales of their heart-stopping adventures take us from the feats of World War I through the heroism of World War II and beyond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 629.13 GRORicks, Thomas E.
Summary: Describes the values, strategic thinking, and leadership qualities of military leaders from World War II to the present day and how the widening separation between performance and accountability has not resulted in any recent Marshalls, Eisenhowers, or Pattons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 RICBakken, Tim
Summary: Veneration for the military is a deeply embedded but fatal flaw in America's collective identity. In twenty yers at West Point, whistleblower Tim Bakken has come to understand how unquestioned faith isolates the U.S. armed forces from civil society and leads to catastrophe. Pervaded by chronic deceit, the military's insular culture elevates blind loyalty above all other values. Bakken makes the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 BAKGroom, Winston
Summary: Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jimmy Doolittle were heroes of the aviation age. These cleverly interwoven tales of their heart-stopping adventures take us from the feats of World War I through the heroism of World War II and beyond. Doolittle, a brilliant aviation innovator, led the Tokyo Raid to retaliate for Pearl Harbor; Lindbergh, hero of the first solo flight across the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 629.13 Groom 2013Jones, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1951
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONClancy, Tom
Summary: In his first three Commanders books, Tom Clancy teamed with Generals Fred Franks, Jr., Chuck Horner, and Carl Stiner to provide masterful blends of history, biography, you-are-there narrative, insight into the practice of leadership, and plain, old-fashioned storytelling. Battle Ready is all of that--and it is also something more. Marine General Tony Zinni was known as the "Warrior Diplomat"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZINNI, ANTHONY CLAO'Connell, Robert L.
Summary: An acclaimed military historian presents this powerful history of four military leaders--Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, George Marshall and Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower--who exhibited unparalleled military leadership that led the U.S. victoriously through two World Wars
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.0092 O'COGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: Refusing to surrender despite the odds against the American forces in 1942, a renegade Army officer organizes a resistance force while a Marine leads his team on a mission through the heart of enemy territory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRIGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: During World War II, a special rescue team assemble to take on a desperate mission during the battle for control of the Solomons when two Marines are trapped at a Coastwatcher station on tiny Buka Island--and faced with the double threat of dwindling supplies and discovery by the Japanese.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1992
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Summary: In the fall of 1950, the Marines have made a pivotal breakthrough at Inchon, and personal conflicts will determine fates for better or worse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: From Shanghai to Wake Island, the Corps was America's first line of defense as the winds of war exploded into the devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Now, the bestselling author of the acclaimed Brotherhood of war saga brings to life the men of the Marine Corps--their loves and their loyalties--as they steeled themselves for battle, and prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 1986
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRIBoykin, Jerry.
Summary: Boykin reveals how his military duty worked in tandem with his faith to bring him through the bloody storms of foreign battle-- and through the political firestorm that ambushed him in his own country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faith Words 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOYKIN, WILLIAM G BOYWukovits, John F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 EISGriffin, W. E. B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1996
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRIGriffin, W. E. B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRIGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: When Captain Ken McCoy is asked to leave the Corps after his report on probable North Korean hostilities displeases his superiors, McCoy is hired by the CIA and must join with other veterans to retaliate against Korea's invasion of the 38th parallel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2002